Using Mobile Fruit Vendors to Increase Access to Fresh Fruit and Vegetables for Schoolchildren

This study explored the extent to which schoolchildren purchased precut and bagged fruits and vegetables from a mobile fruit vendor (frutero). During 14 days in fall 2008, a frutero sold fruits and vegetables at the entrance of an elementary school; 59% of the frutero’s 233 consumers of 248 items we...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tester, June M., Yen, Irene H., Laraia, Barbara
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3457766/